Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, senior national political reporters Natasha Korecki and Jonathan Allen examine whether Minnesota could become a true battleground […]
Jeff Gill As a praying person, a preacher on occasion filling in pulpits and an individual whose public identity is often that of a minister, I do tend to steer around political stances just as a matter of habit and to some degree by inclination. It’s not that I don’t have political impulses, and those […]
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, we have the latest news from a tense day at the Trump trial and what to expect […]
ATLANTA (AP) — When he gives the commencement address at Morehouse College, President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war at a center of Black politics and culture. Morehouse is located in Atlanta, the largest city in the swing state of Georgia, which Biden […]
Six months out from the presidential election, voters are caught up in what-ifs. What if Joe Biden proves the pollsters wrong and clinches a second term? What if Donald Trump retakes the White House, squashes his criminal charges with the power of the chief executive and rewrites the strictures of American government in the image […]
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, White House correspondent Mike Memoli reports on how Joe Biden came around to challenging Donald Trump to […]
We’ve reached the act in Donald Trump’s trial that is no longer farce, but infuriating. This is what the supposedly greatest country on the planet is transmitting to the rest of the world, that we are unserious even about the principles we declare we hold most dear. We’ve had a porn actress describing sexual acts […]
Opinion editor Clay Wirestone and his friends play a game of Twilight Imperium over the weekend. Playthroughs of the board game usually take seven or eight hours. (Clay Wirestone/Kansas Reflector) With election season bearing down on us like an overzealous predator animal, I’d like to take a quick moment to focus on responsibility. The chattering […]
Sports·Associated Press Avalanche Valeri Nichushkin suspended for at least 6 months an hour before team’s playoff game loss The Colorado Avalanche are without high-scoring forward Valeri Nichushkin for what’s left of the playoffs — again. The 29-year-old Russian was suspended for at least six months without pay and placed in stage 3 of the league’s […]
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson assailed the U.S. judicial system on Tuesday as he became the highest-ranking Republican to attend court with Donald Trump, echoing unsubstantiated or disproven arguments made by the former president and his allies. It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics. The powerful House speaker signaled a turn of his […]
Sports·Associated Press Avalanche Valeri Nichushkin suspended for at least 6 months an hour before team’s playoff game loss The Colorado Avalanche are without high-scoring forward Valeri Nichushkin for what’s left of the playoffs — again. The 29-year-old Russian was suspended for at least six months without pay and placed in stage 3 of the league’s […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A Republican primary runoff for a North Carolina congressional district on Tuesday could demonstrate yet again the strong influence former President Donald Trump has on GOP politics across the country. Voters will choose between attorneys Kelly Daughtry and Brad Knott in the runoff for the reconfigured 13th Congressional District. Daughtry finished […]